Feeding time for the orphans

Sri Lanka 2013 Blog 4 Kandy

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December 9th 2013
Note: if you double click on any of the pictures you will be transferred to the picture gallery where they will be enlarged to half page size. Tuesday 3rd December Kandy: the order of business for the day was to visit the Elephant Orphanage at Pinnewala about 45 minutes drive from Kandy. We went straight to the Orphanage and bought our tickets and were told that the eleph ... read more

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The Sinhalese arrived in Sri Lanka late in the 6th century B.C., probably from northern India. Buddhism was introduced beginning in about the mid-third century B.C., and a great civilization developed at the cities of Anuradhapura (kingdom from circa... ... read more